- #1 be you 2
97% matchVery Positive83% of 96 reviews2020
Dev: louis morel
Windows
be you 2 is an interactive visual novel. In this sequel to "be you", you must raise a child by making story choices. There are multiple routes and endings based on your offspring's personality.
Why similar: RPG 65.7%, Casual 34.3%
- #2 FREERIDE
96% matchVery Positive88% of 226 reviews2025
Dev: Flightyfelon Games Inc.
Windows · Mac
Your Personality plays the game! Help strange spirits solve their Unfinished Business... or leave them to Despair. In this highly-branching narrative adventure you'll only see about 1/3 of the full story in each playthrough, but the end is whenever you want it to be.
Why similar: RPG 51.5%, Adventure 32.8%, Indie 15.7%
- #3 Your Adventure
96% matchVery Positive90% of 101 reviews2021
Dev: Zachary Fox
Windows
Create a custom character, and be whoever you want to be! Enjoy traversing strange worlds, and mastering action command combat as you fight strange and odd and weird enemies and bosses! Remember, this is your adventure!
Why similar: RPG 53.8%, Adventure 33.1%, Indie 13.2%
- #4 I Wanna Be A Game Dev!
94% matchVery Positive95% of 204 reviews2024
Dev: Lyko Studio
Windows · Mac
Live out your school days as you navigate the rocky world of game development! Can you make an amazing game, or will something get in the way?
Why similar: RPG 52.2%, Simulation 34.3%, Casual 13.5%
- #5 *NEW* SCUFFED EPIC VISUAL NOVEL
95% matchVery Positive86% of 64 reviews2021
Dev: Chris ShanazPub: shanaz game studios
Windows · Mac
This is *NEW* SCUFFED EPIC VISUAL NOVEL, which is a story set in the world of *NEW* SCUFFED EPIC BHOP SIMULATOR (#4 Best Selling free game of Steam November 2020), play as a character of your choice, as you run into some new, and familiar faces along the way.
Why similar: Casual 56.9%, Adventure 43.1%
- #6 non-binary
93% matchVery Positive93% of 291 reviews2022
Dev: owof games
Windows · Mac · Linux
"non-binary" is a video game that mixes text choices and bullet hell to tell the story of two non-binary people's journey of self-discovery. Make your choices. Dodge words. Go through things that hurt without breaking down. If you can.
Why similar: RPG 100%
- #7 Monster Loves You!
94% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,197 reviews2013
Dev: Radial Games Corp
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Live the life of a Monster, from birth to elderhood and beyond, making decisions that affect the world of Monsters and Humans. Solve problems. Meet animals and interesting people. Get to know them. Eat them. Make your own story!
Why similar: Simulation 26.1%, RPG 24.9%, Casual 18.8%, Indie 15.4%, Adventure 14.9%
- #8 Depression Quest
92% matchMixed61% of 3,931 reviews2014
Dev: The Quinnspiracy
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 75.2 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Depression Quest is an interactive fiction game where you play as someone living with depression. You are given a series of everyday life events and have to attempt to manage your illness, relationships, job, and possible treatment.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #9 Growing Up
91% matchVery Positive88% of 3,558 reviews2021
Dev: Vile Monarch
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
This is the story of your life. Experience the entire journey from toddler to adulthood. Go to schools, learn new things, meet new friends, and have wild adventures! Every choice you make will influence your future career, and decide who your romantic partner will be. Who will you become?
Why similar: Simulation 33.9%, RPG 31.7%, Adventure 19%, Casual 15.4%
- #10 Lily's Night Off
91% matchVery Positive99% of 111 reviews2018
Dev: Kyuppin
Windows · Mac · Linux
Lily's Night Off is a visual novel, but not in the typical sense; as you progress in this game, your actions drastically change character personalities, story lines, and lead to unexpected outcomes.
Why similar: Simulation 59.9%, Adventure 40.1%
- #11 Refind Self: The Personality Test Game
90% matchVery Positive87% of 3,646 reviews2023
Dev: LizardryPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Games can really show someone's personality, don't you think? By way of a simple exploration-based adventure, this data-science game analyzes your actions to estimate your personality.
Why similar: Adventure 43.7%, Simulation 32.6%, Casual 23.7%
- #12 The NOexistenceN of you AND me
88% matchVery Positive93% of 19,673 reviews2024
Dev: 0x0Real StudioPub: Nino Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Why similar: Adventure 52.8%, Indie 47.2%
- #13 To Be or Not to Be
89% matchVery Positive89% of 8,055 reviews2022
Dev: Team KPub: DSGame
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
This is a text adventure game that combines the gameplay of desktop pets and mini-games. You can advance the plot by clicking on the dialogue, or play mini-games to accumulate values to trigger new plots, and you can also cultivate your favorite characters by hanging up.
Why similar: RPG 68.6%, Adventure 31.4%
- #14 Something Strange
89% matchPositive91% of 66 reviews2022
Dev: Ethan ZimmerlePub: Mr. Hand
Windows
Go about your normal every day life and meet new friends in this short visual novel!
Why similar: Casual 50.4%, Adventure 27.3%, Indie 22.3%
- #15 i love me, i love me not
86% matchVery Positive95% of 79 reviews2022
Dev: MALGOW
Windows · Mac
a hand-drawn mental-health-focused game!
Why similar: Adventure 43.9%, Casual 36.8%, Indie 19.2%
- #16 Summer Meetings
87% matchVery Positive92% of 59 reviews2019
Dev: Mikołaj Spychał
Windows · Mac · Linux
We meet many people in our lives. Relationships with them are different and can be changed.
Why similar: Adventure 38.9%, Casual 32.9%, Indie 28.2%
- #17 BatteryNote
84% matchVery Positive100% of 186 reviews2025
Dev: 72studioPub: room6
Windows · Mac
BatteryNote is a multi-ending sci-fi adventure visual novel game. You can recharge three robots with limited lifespans, bringing them back to life. Interact with them through conversations or experiment by applying high voltage. How they spend their final moments is entirely up to you.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #18 Derealized
85% matchMostly Positive79% of 76 reviews2023
Dev: JacksonG13Pub: JacksonGameStudios
Windows
Derealized is a choice based game inspired by games such as The Stanley Parable and Undertale. This experience offers 10 different endings for you to explore! How many will you find?
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #19 Choose Wisely
86% matchMostly Positive70% of 132 reviews2018
Dev: ID Card
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
This game features no specific hero. You, as the player, can decide who makes it out alive. Your actions determine the outcome of the game. In total there are 9 playable characters and more than 50 different paths.
Why similar: RPG 32.5%, Simulation 30.2%, Adventure 23.1%, Indie 14.2%
- #20 Fateweaver: Smash or Pass
84% matchVery Positive94% of 80 reviews2023
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
You are The Fateweaver; an ancient beast of legendary status. It is your job to determine which way Fate will unravel as you dig deep into the psyche of those who beckon. Decide whether to help those who beg for your mercy, or invoke the wrath of the Gods upon those you deem unworthy of existence...
Why similar: Simulation 51.6%, RPG 48.4%
- #21 Familiar Friends: What's Your Familiar?
82% matchVery Positive93% of 183 reviews2024
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
A cute and cozy Visual Novel experience with plenty of choices to make! Come find the Familiar truly meant for you by feeding The Conjuring Cauldron with a multitude of choices, all to a relaxing Original Soundtrack!
Why similar: Simulation 46.3%, RPG 39.5%, Casual 14.2%
- #22 Our Life: Beginnings & Always
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 13,335 reviews2020
Dev: GB Patch Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 25.8 hrs≥1hr: 55%
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
Why similar: Casual 51%, Indie 49%
- #23 My Therapy
82% matchVery Positive96% of 332 reviews2022
Dev: Suvorov Mikhail
Windows · Linux
A visual novel about cute melancholic girls!
Why similar: Simulation 55.5%, Casual 33.8%, Indie 10.7%
- #24 BAD END THEATER
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 9,533 reviews2021
Dev: NomnomNami
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 71%
select your protagonist and explore a variety of terrible fates!
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #25 Crown Delights Deli
83% matchMostly Positive78% of 83 reviews2022
Dev: baconeggandcheese
Windows · Mac
Crown Delights Deli is a visual novel with multiple dialect/language choices. As the cashier at a Brooklyn bodega, choose to talk in English, AAVE, or Spanish to a diverse cast of characters as you try to maintain a five-star rating for your boss.
Why similar: Simulation 47.1%, Casual 30.9%, Indie 22.1%
- #26 Birch Simulator
80% matchVery Positive95% of 102 reviews2023
Dev: Performance Artist
Windows
The main characters of modern games can be very different. Brave knights, brilliant scientists or superheroes saving entire worlds. This game offers you a more unusual experience. Here you can become a Birch.
Why similar: Simulation 38.7%, RPG 22.7%, Casual 20.6%, Adventure 18%
- #27 Athenian Rhapsody: Thunder Goober's Personality Dungeon
79% matchVery Positive90% of 164 reviews2023
Dev: Nico PapaliaPub: Top Hat Studios, Inc.
Windows
Athenian Rhapsody: Thunder Goober's Personality Dungeon is a FREE dangerously goofy RPG with fast paced, unique combat and zany secrets and adventures. Your goal is to build your own rhapsody, the story of you - the player - an experience which cannot be replicated by others.
Why similar: RPG 59.4%, Adventure 40.6%
- #28 Emily is Away
78% matchVery Positive89% of 32,165 reviews2015
Dev: Kyle Seeley
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 19.8 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.
Why similar: Simulation 44.7%, Indie 26.2%, Casual 19.7%, Adventure 9.4%
- #29 Mr. Rightaway
77% matchVery Positive98% of 380 reviews2024
Dev: 开水工作室Pub: NVLMaker
Windows
古风多结局乙女向文字冒险游戏,完全免费
Why similar: Adventure 42.6%, RPG 37.8%, Indie 19.6%
- #30 Awkward Valley
77% matchVery Positive92% of 90 reviews2025
Dev: GallbladderPub: Rue Valley Time Management Department
Windows
Welcome to Awkward Valley! Plan your day, tackle strange activities, and unlock bizarre new options as you go. Gym? Therapy? Vending machine snacks? It’s up to you! Featuring Awkward Yeti’s weird and wonderful characters in a totally normal town.
Why similar: Simulation 67.2%, Casual 32.8%
- #31 奇天烈相談ダイヤル
76% matchVery Positive84% of 323 reviews2024
Dev: 法螺会
Windows · Mac
矛盾を見つけ、相談者の悩みを解決する怪異判定アドベンチャー
Why similar: Simulation 53%, Adventure 37.7%, Indie 9.2%
- #32 Survive In Russia
79% matchMixed65% of 57 reviews2020
Dev: Alexander Sablin
Windows · Mac
Survive in Russia is a survival quest in Russia. You will be available a selection of characters. Each of them presents survival mode and story mode. Only on your choice will depend on the life of the character.
Why similar: RPG 39.2%, Adventure 24.7%, Indie 18.9%, Casual 17.2%
- #33 YAMIKKO TROUBLEMAKER
75% matchVery Positive97% of 79 reviews2025
Dev: お湯めのPub: 半角全角感嘆符
Windows
A long-form, choice-driven psychological horror and depression game in which the protagonist’s ending changes based on the choices made by “you,” the voice he hears in his head.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #34 //TODO: today
76% matchVery Positive93% of 426 reviews2021
Dev: Boys Laugh +
Windows · Mac · Linux
A visual novel about figuring out life with the help of an AI. //TODO: today is a pastel colored slice-of-life story that let's you freely choose your pronouns and romantic preferences!
Why similar: Adventure 35.2%, Casual 32.9%, Indie 31.8%
- #35 Dyscourse
78% matchMostly Positive77% of 444 reviews2015
Dev: Owlchemy Labs
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dyscourse is an interactive choice-based narrative adventure game where you journey through a stylized world of choice and consequence. Choose wisely.
Why similar: Simulation 32.3%, Adventure 27.9%, Indie 20.8%, Casual 19%
- #36 Free Will
74% matchVery Positive97% of 323 reviews2024
Dev: Kipps In A BoxPub: Meowdy
Windows
Free Will is a 2D psychological puzzle RPG where the puzzles happen outside of the game. Dig deep into the system code to fix the corruption, and uncover information that might be better off hidden.
Why similar: RPG 70.1%, Indie 29.9%
- #37 Hydrangea
74% matchVery Positive93% of 123 reviews2024
Dev: Meiri Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A yandere psychological horror visual novel. Choose a sweetheart to romance, but beware the petals of obsession.
Why similar: Casual 100%
- #38 A Game About
75% matchVery Positive90% of 881 reviews2018
Dev: byolivierb
Windows · Mac
A Game About is a free, short, lo-fi point & click adventure that tasks the player with living with their daily routine. Through day to day choices, life changes in imperceptibles and unexpected ways.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #39 I'm Pregnant at 16
71% matchVery Positive85% of 1,557 reviews2025
Dev: 1nstudio
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 1.5 hrs≥1hr: 49%
"I'm Pregnant at 16" is a visual novel about tough choices, growing up, and navigating relationships during an unexpected pregnancy. Personal stories and the consequences of decisions are balanced with awkward moments, chat messages, inner thoughts, and memes.
Why similar: RPG 61.2%, Casual 38.8%
- #40 The Test: Reality Check
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 632 reviews2025
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
The Test: Reality Check is one of multiple installments in an ongoing social experiment that can be classified as an atmospheric, psychological-simulation with horror elements. Dive deep into your own psyche to find answers to questions you've kept locked away, hidden from yourself for far too long.
Why similar: Simulation 42.4%, RPG 39.3%, Casual 18.3%
- #41 Choice of Life: Samosbor
71% matchVery Positive88% of 191 reviews2025
Dev: Blazing Planet Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
You're just a simple inhabitant of the endless Gigastructure. The best you'll get is seven shifts at a machine and a bowl of feed concentrate, and that for good service to the party.... Is that it? Or do you have a choice?
Why similar: RPG 40.4%, Simulation 37.6%, Casual 22%
- #42 UncleOffice:uncle Dating Simulator
72% matchMixed62% of 94 reviews2025
Dev: GameUncle
Windows · Mac
You can play as a newcomer, start a new life, and date 12 uncles
Why similar: Simulation 31.3%, RPG 30.1%, Adventure 20.4%, Casual 18.2%
- #43 By Moonlight
73% matchVery Positive89% of 121 reviews2019
Dev: SugarHyped
Windows · Mac
~ ~ A Comedic Mystery Visual Novel with Relationship Building ~ ~ Play as a paranormal investigator hired by the paranormal to investigate! Search for a headless horseman's missing head before the night is over.
Why similar: RPG 30.6%, Simulation 28.3%, Casual 23%, Indie 18.1%
- #44 Superstorm Melon Date
73% matchVery Positive91% of 74 reviews2021
Dev: A. Hagen
Windows · Mac
It's date night in the dystopian future. You're going out with Mel, a half-melon person with psychic powers. They seem a little weird, but at least they're cute. Choose where to go, what to do, and what to say in this highly interactive, romance visual novel.
Why similar: Simulation 56.2%, Indie 25.9%, Casual 17.9%
- #45 Introvert: A Teenager Simulator
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 869 reviews2021
Dev: Euphoric Brothers
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 47%
One of the new guys in school tells you he’s going to shoot up the school if he doesn’t make friends in 5 days. Discover the decisions, people, situations you will encounter while playing and trying to make friends of your own and living your own life.
Why similar: RPG 43.6%, Adventure 30.4%, Casual 26.1%
- #46 Emily is Away <3
70% matchVery Positive91% of 6,586 reviews2021
Dev: Kyle Seeley
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Emily <3 is a brand new story set on an old-new social media. Customize your facenook profile, send some friend requests and determine the outcome of your senior year.
Why similar: Simulation 33.9%, RPG 20.4%, Casual 15.8%, Indie 15.6%, Adventure 14.3%
- #47 RGB GlitchGazer
67% matchVery Positive99% of 93 reviews2026
Dev: 群星闪耀时Pub: 群星闪耀时
Windows
A mad and romantic ADV. Unravel a strange world of science and philosophy with a mecha girl, zombie girl, or beastfolk. Some paths may disturb you... or thrill you.
Why similar: Adventure 81.4%, Casual 18.6%
- #48 UCOPIA
67% matchVery Positive97% of 104 reviews2025
Dev: YunTYB
Windows
This is a story about art, profit, and friendship.
Why similar: RPG 51.3%, Casual 24.5%, Indie 24.2%
- #49 Emily is Away Too
69% matchVery Positive93% of 6,144 reviews2017
Dev: Kyle Seeley
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Emily is Away Too is a brand new story featuring new characters and multiple different endings. Message your friends, surf the web and choose your path through this branching narrative.
Why similar: Simulation 36.8%, Indie 19.8%, RPG 18.7%, Casual 15.7%, Adventure 9%
- #50 恋爱猪脚饭
69% matchMixed49% of 414 reviews2025
Dev: likeyou游戏Pub: LoveStoryProject
Windows
This is a text adventure game, in which players will play the role of the male protagonist "Huang Xia" and achieve different endings by making choices in the game, realizing their own counterattack life on the construction site.
Why similar: RPG 43.9%, Simulation 30.1%, Casual 19%, Adventure 7%
- #51 Forest Life
68% matchVery Positive93% of 72 reviews2023
Dev: 星辰重工Pub: B.I.G Technology Co., Limited
Windows
Players will play as five different characters and experience five environmental theme scenes relating to sustainable palm oil, orangutan conservation, rainforest protection, etc. Players need to make a variety of choices through their own understanding, and reach different story endings.
Why similar: RPG 71.7%, Casual 14.7%, Indie 13.6%
- #52 Fading Hearts
72% matchMixed65% of 192 reviews2014
Dev: Sakura River Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 168.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Your choices changes the GENRE of the story!Almost EVERY NPC LIES to you at some point in the game!Live a life of adventure or a normal life! A game with true choices!An interactive story/game where you play the role of Ryou, a seemingly normal high school student in the land of Sorayama.
Why similar: RPG 31.4%, Simulation 30.6%, Casual 21.5%, Adventure 9.8%, Indie 6.8%
- #53 Ye Guild Clerk!
63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 1,828 reviews2025
Dev: Devclerk
Windows
The local Adventurer's Guild is hiring!... Not for adventurers, but for guild clerks! You play an important role in handing out quests, gold, and equipment as your actions shape the stories of these animal adventurers for better, or for worse..!
Why similar: Simulation 44.9%, Casual 30.2%, Indie 24.9%
- #54 You Doesn't Exist
71% matchMixed61% of 81 reviews2017
Dev: yo252yo
Windows · Linux
Set out on an adventure that challenges all the codes of the RPG genre, toying with its boundaries to create something unlike anything you've ever seen. In a world full of magic and adventure, a young boy starts his apprenticeship to become a knight... And it will change his life... and yours.
Why similar: RPG 100%
- #55 Twists of My Life
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 635 reviews2019
Dev: Novel
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Twists of My Life" - is a visual novel where every decision you make can completely change the storyline.
Why similar: Indie 52.9%, Casual 47.1%
- #56 Knell of St. Godhrkar
66% matchVery Positive94% of 1,530 reviews2021
Dev: 二律背反Pub: 旅人计划
Windows · Mac
In this game, you can watch as 7 protagonists come to a crossroad, facing their own destiny. You will witness their own choices and the blood-splattering consequence they have on one another. There is no way out except to plunge them into the abyss...
Why similar: RPG 50.3%, Adventure 33.7%, Indie 16%
- #57 Space Choice: Data Analyzer
68% matchVery Positive93% of 168 reviews2021
Dev: Silver Dollar Games
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 68%
A little experimental game about making many choices quickly. Pick from 3 options, then do it again, and again, and again... Make the best out of a bad situation. Do it as quickly as you can because time is the most valuable resource at your disposal.
Why similar: Simulation 52.2%, Casual 36.8%, Indie 11%
- #58 My name is You and it's the only unusual thing in my life
68% matchVery Positive81% of 902 reviews2019
Dev: Nikita Igorevich Studio
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 52%
This is you, and this – is You. Both of you have something in common – exceptionality in a monotonous moment of time, when meaningless decisions have to be made. Or meaningful, to such an extent, that there is nothing left once they are made.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #59 The Use of Life
64% matchVery Positive90% of 734 reviews2025
Dev: だらねこげーむず/Daraneko GamesPub: PLAYISM
Windows
The Use of Life is a multi-ending adventure book style JRPG. The main character’s various attachments change in accordance with the choices the player makes, and the ending changes depending on “the use of life” you choose through your journey.
Why similar: RPG 52.4%, Adventure 27.8%, Indie 19.8%